Can stress cause BDD?

Can stress cause BDD?

Jamie Feusner (Psychiatrist, Professor, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: What causes BDD?; Is BDD a brain disease?; What do MRI images tell us about the brains of people with BDD? and more...

Stress can definitely trigger BDD, but probably stress alone is not enough to cause it, otherwise everybody would develop BDD. But certainly it can trigger it, that a person can feel stressed, they can start feeling maybe depressed or anxious, and that often in somebody that already has BDD, can make their symptoms come up, or make them get worse.